Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.
I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.
I realized that women are still not seen as equal to men. We had a big wave of feminism just before my generation was born. We're still sitting on this wave. There are very militant people and very aggressive women at the top of that wave but I think we have a new version of it now.
Let's face it, fashion was destroyed by HIV. People would just die like flies in the eighties. Then, my brother died of HIV, so I was shaken by it in a way that you cannot imagine. It has sadly been in my life ever since and affected it for such a long time. It won't let go. To me, it's a fight that's not finished. Of course, there are medicines that help, but half the world has no access to them.
Public people are definitely captives. It wasn't really my ambition, but that's what happened. If I could find another word that would be more precise, I'd tell that I'm captive of my need for acknowledgement. People ask me, "Isn't it terrible to be famous?" Not for me! I sort of need it. To be honest, I always enjoyed it. It's as if it gave me some structure. It's as if I needed someone else's eyes to look at myself.
My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job.
I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
I'm crazy about Israel. It's full of life.
We don't need to be feminist in my generation.
I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
People can have political opinions and put them into songs. I'd never deliberately do that, but that's a personal choice I'm inspired by my man but not by his previous position. I'm more inspired by people that are left out by society.
Many young people are not having safe sex because they think medicines will make everything okay. The thing about these medicines is that you often have to take them your whole life. They can be very aggressive chemicals for your body. Just because you don't hear of as many people around you dying from HIV/AIDS - just like how it was in the '80s and '90s - you can still die. I'd say to someone who's very young to protect themselves and protect their lives. There's nothing safer than not catching this virus. It's having something that never goes out of your system.
I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.
When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.
